Captivity (film)

Captivity
Captivity
	Theatrical release poster featuring Elisha Cuthbert
Directed by	Roland Joffé
Screenplay by	Larry Cohen; Joseph Tura;
Story by	Larry Cohen
Produced by	Mark Damon; Sergei Konov; Gary Mehlman; Leonid Minkovski;
Starring	Elisha Cuthbert; Daniel Gillies; Pruitt Taylor Vince; Michael Harney; Laz Alonso;
Cinematography	Daniel C. Pearl
Edited by	Richard Nord
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Production; companies	After Dark Films; Freestyle Releasing; Foresight Unlimited; Russian American Movie Company;
Distributed by	Lionsgate;
Release date	13 July 2007;
Running time	85 minutes
Countries	United States; Russia;
Languages	English; Russian;
Budget	$17 million
Box office	$10.9 million

Captivity is a 2007 horror film of the "torture porn" subgenre, directed by Roland Joffé, written by Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura, and starring Elisha Cuthbert and Daniel Gillies. Considered an entry into a subgenre popularized by such film series as Hostel and Saw, the film centres on a young fashion model (Cuthbert) who is abducted and is psychologically tortured by unknown assailants.